Years before telling his family he wanted to be a football coach, Bill Belichick was acting like one.

As a 10-year-old kid growing up in Annapolis, he was analyzing film with his father, Steve, who was a Navy assistant for 33 years. Young Bill's task was to watch future Navy opponents and chart each player on every play -- how the end blocked, which way the guards pulled. It was menial work, but it took a keen eye.

At about the same time, Bill was telling his pals where to play in backyard baseball games. His mother, Jeannette, heard him one day -- "You pitch, you play third, you get out there in the outfield" -- and thought Bill was being bossy.

"When I started to say something," she said, ...

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